Shirt-waist



(NoModeL) H. L. LEVY. SHIRT WAIST.

No. 493,170. v Patented Mar. 7; 1893.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HER-MAN L. LEVY, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

SHIRT-WAIST.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 493,170, dated March 7, 1893.

Application filed December 29, 1892. Serial No. 456,700- (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HERMAN L. LEVY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Jackets or Shirt-Waists, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide ready means for connecting the buttons to and disconnecting them from the Waist band of a jacket or shirt waist and to this end the articleis provided with two longitudinal bands having perforations or buttonholes and secured to the body of the jacket or waist throughout their entire length at or near two opposite edges but detached from said body along their other edges as pointed out in the following specification and claim and illustrated in the annexed drawing in which,

Figure 1, shows a jacket or Waist spread out. Fig. 2, is a section along as m Fig. 1.

In the drawings the letter A indicates the body of the jacket or waist. The waist bands B O are secured to the body at or near two opposite edges that is to say the band B is socured by stitches or fastenings D at or near its upper edge and the band 0 is secured by stitches or fastenings E at or near its lower edge. The other edges namely the lower edge of band B and the upper edge of band 0 are detached or left free from the body so that the band B can be folded or flapped upward as seen in Fig. 1 or as seen in broken lines in Fig. 2 while the band C can be folded or fiapped downward.

The bands B O are provided with corresponding button holes and the buttons F being passed through the button holesof both bands B C will be held firmly in place, the band B preventing downward motion of the buttons while the band C prevents upward motion.

The buttons can be readily detached or taken out when the jacket or waist is to be cleaned or repaired and said buttons when detached can be kept together by a connecting string or band G. p

The double bands B C give strength and a certain degree of rigidity to the waist and prevent it being readily wrinkled or pulled out of shape.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A jacket or shirt waist having two waist bands provided with a series of corresponding button holes and each band respectively attached continuously along an edge located oppositely to the attached edge of the other band but having the other edge detached from the body, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HERMAN L. LEVY.

Witnesses:

WM. 0. HAUFF, E. F. KASTENHUBER. 

